On Tuesday we read this in the Washington Post:

Later, at the University of Virginia, Clinton played guest lecturer for a course taught by Prof. Larry J. Sabato. Clinton spent well over an hour taking questions from students on issues that included the war in Iraq, universal health care, taxes and biofuels.

Students gave her a standing ovation, cheering and snapping photos with their cellphones. Then the whole auditorium seemed to sway, as people in the audience, arms around one another, sang the school’s alma mater.

Our eyes moistened when we read that sweet story.  Heck, we lit a cigarette lighter ourselves and gently rocked back and forth, arms reaching to the sky, in our glass-enclosed nerve center.  We swear we even heard somene behind us yell, “Freebird!”

Alas, another dream destroyed by America’s foremost hope monger.

From today’s Washington Post:

In Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, 3,918 people voted in the Democratic primary in 2004. On Tuesday, 7,676 votes were cast, and Obama won 75 percent of them.

“The university communities have burgeoned,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the school. “They are major growth localities across the state that are attracting a Democratic electorate.”

Today, alas, no one sings the school’s alma mater.  Not even “Freebird.”